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Title: The Crown of Wild Olive
also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: September 28, 2008 [eBook #26716]

Language: English

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Illustrated Library Edition

THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE

Also

MUNERA PULVERIS

PRE-RAPHAELITISM--ARATRA PENTELICI

THE ETHICS OF THE DUST

FICTION, FAIR AND FOUL

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING

by

JOHN RUSKIN, M.A.

[Illustration: _Portrait of Carlyle_

Etched by E. A. Fowle--From Painting by Samuel Lawrence]

[Illustration]

Boston and New York
Colonial Press Company
Publishers

CONTENTS.

THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.

PAGE
LECTURE I.

WORK, 17

LECTURE II.

TRAFFIC, 44

LECTURE III.

WAR, 66

MUNERA PULVERIS.

PREFACE, 97

CHAP.

I. DEFINITIONS, 111

II. STORE-KEEPING, 125

III. COIN-KEEPING, 151

IV. COMMERCE, 170

V. GOVERNMENT, 181

VI. MASTERSHIP, 204

APPENDICES, 222

PRE-RAPHAELITISM.

PREFACE, 235

PRE-RAPHAELITISM, 237

ARATRA P